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1. Bioethics is a discipline concerned with studying and resolving challenges within the life sciences as understood in a broad sense. Its most important aim is to monitor biopractices which might undermine the values or conditions that underlie all versions of what is termed a moral community ( Brownsword 25 ) and to provide a practical framework for ethical decision-making. This is achieved by monitoring with reference to various sources, including philosophy, religion, history and law ( Schaller 1, 6 ). The term bioethics was coined in 1970 by Van Rensselaer...

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